Machine for holding, stamping, and displaying checks.



' No. 874,905. PATE'NTED DEC. 24, 1907.

. E. F. CHANDLER.

MAGHINE FOR HOLDING, STAMPING, AND DISPLAYING GHEGKS..

APPLIOATION FILED NOV.23.1905.

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No. 874,905 PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

v E. I. CHANDLER.

MACHINE FOR HOLDING, STAMPING, AND DISPLAYING GHEGKS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.23. 1905.

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. E. F. CHANDLER. MAGHINE FOR HOLDING, STAMPING, AND DISPLAYING GHEGKS.

A APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23. 1905.

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INVENTOR E01? 6' .WITNESSES No. 874,905. PATENTED DEG. 24, 1907- E. F. CHANDLER. MACHINE FOR. HOLDING, STAMPING, AND DISPLAYING CHECKS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23. 1905.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

EDWARD FARRINGTON CHANDLER,

OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO EDWARD RUSSELL VAN TASS-EL AND ON E-THIRD TO ALEXANDER EDWARD LEIGHTON,

OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MACHINE FOR-HOLDING, STAMPING, AND DISPLAYING CHECKS.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWARD FARRINGTON CHANDLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Holding, Stamping, and Displaying Checks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a machine for holding, stamping, and displaying checks, and has for its purpose to provide a device that is particularly adapted for use in banks to be used in connection with adding machines, andin which a stack of checks may be held and automatically segregated and conveyed ,past a stamping or indorsing cylinder and then held forabrief time in full view of the operator to enable him to read the numbers and record them upon the adding machine, after which the checks are finally depositedin a suitable receptacle from which they may be removed. This arrangement not only avoids the separate handling of the checks necessary when the amounts thereof are being recorded, but pro-. vides an automatic stamping device and in- I sures each check being canceled without the I been labor necessity of individual handling upon the part of the operator and also gives him the use of both hands to operate the adding machine and thus permitting the work .to be done in much less time than is now required. I

; com risinga base A, sides, A and front A the atter havi-n I by a glass pane opening for the purpose aswi'll appear later ion.v In the upper end of the casing is arranged a hopper A Heretofore when the amounts of a humber of checks were to be ascertained by the use of the adding machine. to find out their gross amount, they have been deposited in a small tray or upon a small platform held adjacent the machine within easy reach and in full view of the operator so that he may read the amounts of the checks and with one hand operatethe keys of the machine to record the amount, and the other hand, remove each check-from the pile so that the second check may be read and the amount recorded. This arrangement constantly em ploys the use of one hand in turning the checks and consequently retards the work, and then after the amounts of one stack have ascertainedthe checks are stamped, necessitating a further handling and consequently the loss of much valuable time. With my machine, however, the manual of handling the checks when their amounts are being recorded and also when Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed N gvember 23, 1905- Serial No. 288,765.

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Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

stamping or indorsing them, is avoided, and

consequently a saving of time and labor re-.

- chine looking toward the front, and Fig. 2 is a similar view looking toward the back of the machine. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view drawn on the line 33 of Fig. 4. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation drawn i on the line 4 -4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an irregular horizontal section drawn on the line w view illustrating the gears for o crating the various shafts hereinafter descrilied. Fig. 7 is a detail longitudinal section drawn through the stamping cylinder. Fig. 8 is a detail cross-section drawn on the line 88 of Fi In the drawings A, designates the casing an opening that is covered A, and. provides a sight which extends entirely across the casing, and is of a size toconveniently hold a pile of checks. The bottom A, of the hopper inclines from the rear to the front of the machine, but stops short of the front, leaving a passage-way A for the gassage of the checks, and which is formed ya divisional plate A", that extends from the ho per and is connected at its lower end to a horizontally arran ed divisional plate or bottom A". The bac the bottom A", and the bottom of t e hopper is closed by a suitable hinged back A Secured upon the inner faces of the sides of the casing are bracket-plates b, one of which has a series of hubs I), having smooth bores in which the ends of a series of shafts,

of the casin between Fig. 6, is a detail sectionah.

, 7, and Fig. 9 illustrates a portion of a chec k after it has passed through the machine and illustrating the stamp such as used in bands.

hereafter described, are journaled, and the- A way A, throu h openings a produced in t e upper end of t e divisional plate A", and extending through openings a in the front of the casing, are segregatmg disks C, 0, carried by a suitable su port C, which is secured at its ends to t e sides of the casing and the faces of these disks slightly contact with the periphery ofthe feed-rollers and are designed to prevent more than one check at a time being delivered through the passage-way A.

The shaft carryin the feed-rollers B, B, has a inion B heId thereon adjacent one end, w 'ch is meshed by an idle pmion D, of even size, that is journaled upon a stubshaft projecting from one of the bearing plates 1), and engaging this idle pinion, is another pinion E, held upon a shaft E, which is journaled at one end in one of the adjustable bearings b and at its'op osite end in a tubular sleeve F, hereinafter referred to. The pinion E, is meshed by a mutilated gear G, the teeth of which extend around the periphery being equal in number to those of the pinions. This gear G, is mounted upon a shaft G, that is journaled at one end in one of the adjustable bearings and at its 0 po site end-in a bracket-arm b projecting om the side ofthe casing and has upon its extreme outer end a pinion G that is meshed by a worm-gear H, carried by a shaft H whose op osite end is provided with a pinion H that 1s meshed bya wormear I, held upon the shaft of a motor I. T e shaft H, is journaled in an extension of the bracket 1)", and in a bracket secured to, and projectin from the end of the motor-frame.

pon one side of the mutilated gear is a cam disk J, which may be cast integral with the gear or secured thereto in any suitable manner, and engaging the cam is an antifnctionroller 7:, ournaled u on a lever-arm K, that ro'ects from 'a roc -shaft K, held in suitab e ubs formed upon the plates 6. This rock-shaft has a series of depending rack-arms L, fixedly held thereon and which extend downwardly and have their lower ends terminate in forwardly projecting fingers L, which normally rest immediately adjacent the lower end of the glass panel The roller k, of the lever-arm K, is held A". into engagement with the cam by a sprin 7c, so that when the cam has been revolved ast the roller, the rack-arms will be proected into the lower end of the passageway and in position to catch and hold a check so that it may be read through the sight-open- Ihe shaft E, before referred to carries a stamping cylinder M, which is fixedly secured to the shaft and revolves therewith and the tubular sleeve F, in which one end of the shaft is journaled is revolubly held within a second tubular sleeve N, that projects into, and is engaged by the end of the cylinder.

The sleeve F, projects at each end past the sleeve N, and has its inner end provided with a disk F, upon which is held an endless belt F which passes through slots formed in the periphery'of the cylinder and around a bar F which is produced by the slots. This belt has numerals formed thereon or secured thereto, the denominations of which range from 1 to 31 and represent the days of the month. At the outer end the sleeve is provided with a knob-handle E, by which the sleeve is revolved to shift the .belt to cause the proper numeral to be held upon the bar.

Adjacent the handle F is a disk F hav-- ing graduation marks which are numbered to corres 0nd with the numerals of the belt and by which the operator can see what numeral of the belt is exposed. The tubular sleeve N, also has a disk N, upon its inner end around which passes an endless belt N which also passes through the slots in the periphery of the cylinder and over the bar F This belt has abbreviations of the twelve months stamped upon or secured thereto and in order to operate this shaft, I provide its outer end with a disk N the face of which has a series of graduation marks which may be numbered from 1 to 12 to denote the months in the same manner as the graduation upon the disk F The edge of the disk N is milled to facilitate the turning.

Arranged u on the cylinder and upon opposite sides of the slot is a plate 0, having a suitable stamp and also the numerals of the vear.

y In Fig. 9 of the drawings, I show a portion of a check after it has been stamped and illustrating the form of stamp carrying the usual inscription generally employed in banks.

In order to provide a firm bearing surface for the stamp cylinder, I journal a shaft P, in suitable brackets held upon the ends of the casing and upon which is held a platen roller or cylinder P, of either rubber or any suitable material and which projects through an opening p, produced in the front of the casing into the passage-way, and against the stamp cylinder or roller. The platen roller, its shaft, the segregating disks, and its su ports are incased by asuitable plate Q, he d This the shaft B, and one of these bracket-arms also engages the cylinder shaft E, and'the other arm, the tubular sleeve N, said bracket arms forming anintermediate support for the shaft E, and the inner ends of the tubular sleeves.

In practice, the motor is connected to the current wires in any suitable manner, but I propose to iIIt-GEPOSG a switch S, as shown in the Figs. 1, an 4, of the drawings, so that the movement of the motor may be readily and conveniently controlled.

he manner in which my machine is used and its operation is asfollows; When the aggregate amount of a certain number of checks is to be ascertained by the use of an adding machine they are first properly assembled and placed in the hopper A so that the lower-most check will engage the feed disks B, the switch is then thrown to start the motor which will impart motion through the train of gears to the feed-roller, shaft and the stamping cylinder shaft, and the moment the feed-rollers begin to move, they will draw the lower-most check of the pile down throughthe passage-way A into engagement with the stamping cylinder and platen roll, through which it will be drawn and stamped and finally allowed .to drop WI1 upon the fingers of the rack-arms L, where it will be temporarily retained until the cam carried by the mutilated gear will operate to rock the shaft and draw the lower ends of the arms into the slots T, produced in the lower end of the divisional plate A When motion is first imparted to the mutilated gear, the feed-rolls and the stamping cylinder will be first operated to feed the check and during this operation, the rackarms will be allowed to remain in their normal position, but the moment the revolution of the disks and cylinder is stopped, the arms will be operated as before described.

arrangement provides for an intermittent removal of the checks from the hopper and also allows the held adjacent the sight opening in full view of the operator while the succeeding check is passing through the stamping cylinder and platen roll or cylinder, but before the succeeding check has been released, the arms are withdrawn through the slots in the divisional lates when the checks will be wiped or forced therefrom and allowed to drop into a suitable receptacle held the casing which is shown a basket U.

By the use of the segregating disks, it will be seen that only one check is permitted to be withdrawn from the hopper and should two or more checks adhere to each other, the upper ones will be retarded by the disks and on y "the lower one be permitted to pass down through the passage-way.

From the fore-going, it will be seen that I in. the bottom of in the drawing as preceding check to be I provide an exceedingly,

iighly efficient device for the purposes stated, and while I- have described my machine and illustrated it for use in banks, I desire it understood that I do not limit myself to this particular use asit may be used in dechecks used by the ClGIlIS in making sales and in fact in many other instances either in connection with adding machines or for the sole purpose of stamping or indorsing checks and slips of various nature.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A check displaying device comprising a casing having a hopper and a sight opening below the hop er, means for successively passing checks om the hopper and bringing them into alinement with the sight opening, holding means adapted to retain the check before the sight opening stamping devices for stamping checks during their passage from the hopper to the holding means and means for automatically withdrawing the holding means after a predetermined interval of time. Y

2. A device of the kind described comprising a check holding receptacle, means for successively withdrawlng one check at a time from the said receptacle, visiblecheck holding means adapted to receive the check after it has been withdrawn from the receptacle, means for stamping the checks after they have been withdrawn from the hopper and means for discharging the check from the receiving means after a predetermined time;

3. In a check displaying device comprising a casing provided with a hopper and a sight opening below the hopper, feeding means for successively passing checks from the hopper and bringing them into alinement. with the si ht opening, asegregating device co-acting wlth the feeding means, stamping devices for engagement with the checks, holding means adapted to retain the check before the sight opening, and means for automatic.- ally withdrawing the holding means after a predetenninedinterval ofjtime.

4. The combination of a casing having a sight opening and a hopper, feeding devices arranged in the casing and projecting into the hopper, segregating devices held adjacent the feeding devices, a stamping cylinder, rack-arms alining with the sight opening, and means for operating the feeding de vices, stamping cylinder, and rack-arms.

5. The combination of a casing having a sight opening and a hopper, intermittently operating feeding disks mounted within the casing, an intermittently operated stamping cylinder arranged adjacent the disks, means for simultaneously operating the feeding disks and stamping cylinder, intermittently cheap, simple, and

partment stores forstamping the slips or ,and means for rotating operated rack-arms, and means for operating the rack-arms alternately with the disks and stamping cylinder.

6. The combination of a casing having a sight opening and a hop er, feeding disks operatively held within t e casing and extending into the hopper, segregating disks held adjacent the feedin disks, a stamping cylinder operatively hel within the casing, and a platen roller or cylinder co-acting with the stam ing cylinder, rack-arms operatively held wit in the casing below the stam 'ing cylinder, and means for operating the eeding disks, stamping cylinder, and rack-arms, the said means imparting an alternate movement to the rack-arms with respect to the feeding disks and stam in cylinder.

7. A machine of the iiinc l described, comrising a casing having a sight opening and a opper, a shaft carrying feeding disks journaled in the casing, a shaft carrying a stamping cylinder journaled carried by the shafts, an idle pinion meshing the first mentioned pinions, a rock-shaft having a lever-arm and rack-arms, a mutilated gear engaging the pinion upon the stamping cylinder shaft, and having a cam that engages the lever-arm of the rock-shaft,

and means for rotating the mutilated gear,

substantially as specified. 8. A machine of the kind described, comprising a casing having a sight opening and a 0 per, a shaft carrying feeding disks journa ed in the casing, segregatin disks held adjacent the feeding disks, a shaft carrying a s'tamping cylinder ournaled in the casing, pinions carried by the shafts, an idle pinion meshing the first mentioned. pinions, a rockshaft having a lever-arm and rack-arms, a mutilated gear engaging the pinion upon the stamping cylinder shaft, and havin a cam that engages the lever-arm of the rec -shaft, the mutilated gear substantially as specified.

9. A machine of the kind described, comrising a casing having a sight opening in its front face and a hopper in its upperend, a divisional plate proxiding a passage-Way that communicates with the hopper, a shaft carrying feeding disks journaled in the easing, a shaft carrying a stamping cylinder also journaled in the casing, the said feeding disks and stamping cylinder having their peripheries projectin into the said passage-way, segregating dis s co-acting with the feeding disks, and a platen roller co-acting with the stamping cylinder, a rock-shaft journaled within the casing and having rack-arms which project into the lower end of the passage-Way, and common means for operating the feeding disks and stam ing cylinder, and for operating the rock -sha t to Withdrawthe rack-arms from the passage-way, said means imparting an alternate movement to the eeding which project in the casing, pinions extending rock-shaft with respect to the feeding disks and stamping cylinder.

10. A machine of the kind described, comprisin a casing having a sight-opening in its front divisional plate arranged within the casing and adjacent the front face, a shaft carrying feeding disks journaled in thecasing, the peripheries of which extend through slots formed in thebottom of the hopper and the divisional plate, segregating dis s held adjacent the feeding disks, a shaft carrying a stamping. cylinder journaled within the easing, below the first mentioned shaft, the periphery of the stamping cylinder projecting through an opening sional plate, a rock-shaft journaled in the. casing and having depending rack-arms through slots in the divisional plates and into the lower end of the passageway, pinions carried by the shaft having the feeding disks and the cylinder shaft, an idle pinion meshing the said pinions, a shaft carrying a'mutilated gear journaled in the casmg, said ear meshing the pinion of the cylinder shaft, a cam carried by the gear and adapted for engagement with a lever-arm from the rock-shaft, and means for operating the shaft of the mutilated gear substantially as specified.

11. A machine of the kind described, comprising a casing having a sight opening and a hopper, feeding disks operatively held Within the casing and projecting into the hopper, segregating disks carried by the casing and held adjacent the feeding disks, a stamping cylinder arranged within the casing, means for simultaneously operating the said disks and cylinder, rack-arms held within the easing and normally held parallel tothe sight opening, means for operating the feeding disks and stamping cylinder, and means for operating the said arms alternately with the operation of the said disks and cylinder.

12. A machine of the kind described, comprising a casing having a sight opening in its front and ahopper at its upper end, a divisional plate arranged within the casing adjacent the front and'providing a passage-way, a shaft journaled within the casing and having feeding disks secured thereto, the peripheries of which extend into the hopper andi which extend through slots in the divisional produced in the divi-- having its periphery contaoti V u on the gear and engagingthe lever-arm of t e rock-shaft, a wor -pinion arranged upon the shaft carrying the mutilated gear, a motor held within the casing, the shaft of which is provided with a worm -wheel, and a shaft carrying, a worm-wheel which meshes with the worm-pinion, and a Worm pinion which meshes the worm-wheel of the motor-shaft.

13. A machine of the kind described, comprising a casing having a sight opening in its face and a hopper at its upper end, a horizontally disposed divisional plate arranged above the lower end of the-casing, and a vertically arranged divisional plate that extends from the forward end of the hopper to the said horizontal divisional plate, the said vertically disposed plate rovidin 'a assa eway which extends frolh the h ppe r to t he lower end of the casing, a shaft journaled within the casing, feeding disks carried by the shaft, a stamping cylinder held upon a shaft that is journaled in the casing, a rockshaft journaled in the casing and having rack-arms depending therefrom which extend into the lower end of the passage-way, pinions carried by the first and second mentioned shafts, an idle pinion meshing the said pinions, a shaft ournaled in'brackets carried y the casing, a mutilated gear carried by the last mentioned shaft and meshing the pinion of the cylinder shaft, a cam formed upon the side of the gear and ada ted for engagement by a lever-arm exten ing from the rock-- shaft, and a motor held upon the horizontal divisional late and operatively connected to the mutilated gear shaft substantially as specified.

14. A machine of the kind described, comprisinga casing, a shaft j ournaled at one end in a bracket carried by the casing and at its opposite end in an adjustable hearing held in the oppositeside of the casing, feeding disks held upon the shaft, a second shaft journaled atone end in the casing and at its opposite end in a tubular sleeve which in turn is held in a second tubular sleeve that is journaled at oneend in the casing, a stamping cylinder held upon the second end of. the stamping cylinder providing a bearing for the second mentioned tubular sleeve, disks arranged upon the inner ends of the said tubular sleeves, said disks having belts operating thereon which extend through the periphery of thecylinder for the purpose specific a stationary bearing carried by the casing a leverl ing held in the j ournaled in the casing,

mentioned shaft, one

a rock shaft j ournaled at one endin and at its opposite end opposite side of the casing, rack-arms depen. ing from the rock-shaft, and means for operating all of the shafts substantially as specified.

15. A machine ofthe kind described, comprising a casing having a sight opening and a in an adjustable bear- 'opper, a. shaft carrying feeding disks pro- I I jecting'into the hopper, segregating disks coacting with the feeding disks, a shaft carrying a stamping cylinder j ournaled in the casing, endless belts having type surfaces operatively held within the cylinder, said belts o crating through slots produced in the peripiiery of the cylinder, and means for operating the belts, a rock-shaft carrying rack-arms j ournaled in the casing, and means for intermittently' operating the shaft having the feeding disks and the cylinder shaft, and means for intermittently shaft,.said rock-shaft being operated altersubstantially as specified. v

16. A machine of the-kind described, comprising a casing, a shaft having feeding disks segregating disks coacting with the feeding disks, a shaft carrying a stamping cylinder journaled in the casing, tubular sleeves encircling one end of the shaft and projecting into the cylinder, the ends of the said sleeves having disks arranged thereon, endless belts having type surfaces held uponthe disks and operating through slots formed in the'periphery of the cylinder, a knob formed uponthe end of one sleeve and a disk held upon the endof the other sleeve, a platen roller co-acting withthe stamping cylinder, an ink roller he (1 for engagement with the stamping cylinder, a rock-shaft journaled in the casing and having rack-arms de ending therefrom, and means for operating t e feeding disk shaft, the stamping cylinder shaft,

17. A machine of the kind described, comrising a casing having a sight opening and a hopper, a vertically disposed divisional plate arranged within the casing adjacent the front, said divisional. plate providing a .passage-way which communicates with the hopper, a shaft journaled in the casing,--feed1ng disks heldupon the shaft and extending into the forward end of the hopper-and the upper end of the passage-way, segregating disks held in the casing adjacent the feeding disks, a shaft carrying a stamping cylinder journaled in the casing and having its periphery extending into the passage-way, a latch roller co-acting with the stamping cy inder, endless belts cylinder and projecting through slots in the periphery of the cylinder, and means for operating the belts, avrock-shaft journaled 1n the casing'and having depending rack. armswhich project through s ots formed in operating the rockand the roclgshaft substantially as specified.

nately with respect to the disks and cylinder mounted within the stamping the said divisional plate, said arms being normally held adjacent the sight opening, and means for intermittently operatlng the feeding disk shaft, the stamping cyllnder shaft, and means for intermittentl operating the rock-shaft, said ,feedin 'sk shaft and cylinder shaft bein operate alternately with the operation of tie rock-shaft.

18. A machine of the kind described, comprising a casing consistin of the base, sides, and front, and having a opper arranged in the upper end, and a horizontally disposed divisional plate providing a bottom near its lower end, a vertically disposed divisional late extending from the forward end of the IOPPBI to the said bottom and providing a assage-way which communicates with the opper, the front of the casing having a sight openingarranged therein,-feeding disks operatively held within the casing and projecting into the forward end of the hopper and the up or end of the passage-wa a stamping cy lnder operatively held wit 'n the casing and projecting into the passage-way below the feeding disks,rack-arms arranged within the casing and projecting into the lower end of the-passage-way, said arms being normally held adjacent the sight 0 ening, segregating disks co-acting with the eeding disks and a platen roller eo-acting with the stam ing cylinder, means for intermittently an si-' multaneously operating the feeding disks, and stamping cylinder, and means for intermittently operating the rock-shaft to withdraw the rack-arms away from the sight opening,,said rock-shaft being operated alternately with respect to the feeding disks and stam ing cylinder.

19. A evice of the kind described comprising a casing having a ho per -an sight opening, rack arms arrange adjacent the sight opening, the feed roller adapted to feed checks successively from the hopper to the v rack arms and a mutilated gear adapted to operate the feed rollers and having a cam oppositel arranged with respect to the gear teeth an adapted to operate the rack arms.

20. In a machine for holding, stamping, and displaying checks, and the like, the combination of an intermittently operated feeding device, an intermittently operated stamping device, and means forholding a check after it has been stamped, said means being operated to release the check when the feeding device and stamping device are inactive.

' 21. In a machine for holding, stamping, and displaying checks, and the like, the combination with a casing having a sight'opening, of an intermittently operated feeding device, an intermittently operated stamping cylinder, and means arranged adjacent the sight opening for engagement by the check after it has passed the stam ing cylinder for holding it opposite the sig t opening, said means being 0 erated to release the check when the said eeding device and stamping cylinder are inactive.

Witnesses:

M. D. BLoNDEL, E. M. VENN.

EDWARD FARRINGTON CHANDLER. I 

